Today, I read a post on TPM suggesting that the Pigford Settlement could’ve been a second target for right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart and his like in addition to the NAACP (for their criticism of the Tea Party leadership for tolerating racism within their ranks).
…Andrew Breitbart’s timing of the release of the grossly distorted video of [...]
Yesterday, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning the racist acts of Tea Party protesters. The backlash from the Tea Party has been furious.
But we are not an organization that shies away from controversy. The NAACP was founded on hope, not hate — and we will not stand idly by as racists work to divide our [...]
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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This music special was recorded last night (24 hours before the original date - Feb. 10 and the DC blizzard). “In Performance at the White House” will broadcast tomorrow (Thursday) February 11 on PBS stations (check local listings). It is heartening to see Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a member of the original Freedom [...]
I’m behind on my President’s Weekly due to so many other things on my plate and of course the news and other distractions of the past week. I’m so focused on work (thankfully) and the “what next” of health care reform that I didn’t have time to fully address the meaning and impact of [...]
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. Had he lived, he would’ve been 81 years old. This was King’s last speech given in the wake of a garbage workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee in April 1968. The next day he was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. [...]
SYMPOSIUM: Cuba in the World: Literature, Politics, Performance
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Ariel Fernandez at the Future of Music Policy Summit. Ariel’s working on a new documentary “Hip-Hop in Cuba: a Revolution Within the Revolution.” He sent me an email to let me know that he’s in [...]
Thursday is the big day. President Barack Obama pops a brew with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gates’ arresting officer Sargeant James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department at the White House for an informal chat about…..health care reform. Wouldn’t that be interesting (!?).
But this is supposed to [...]
